HSK 6 · Verbs

封闭 fēngbì “to seal off” in Chinese

Traditional 封閉

What 封闭 means

  1. to seal off
  2. to close
  3. closed
  4. to close down (an illegal venue)
  5. closed (i.e. isolated from outside input)

How to say 封闭

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale封fēng1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale闭bì4th tone, falling

封闭 in a sentence

  1. 她告诉我们道路被封闭了。

    Tā gàosu wǒmen dàolù bèi fēngbì le.

    She told us the road was closed.

    Sentence #895057 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

  2. 中国乒乓球队进行了一个月的封闭式冬训。

    Zhōngguó pīngpāngqiú duì jìnxíng le yí ge yuè de fēngbìshì dōngxùn.

    The Chinese table tennis team did a month of closed-door winter training.

    Sentence #1583540 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 封闭 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 封 (fēng) with each of its parts in a different colour
封fēngto confer
  • 圭jade tablet · guī
  • 寸inch · cùn
The character 闭 (bì) with each of its parts in a different colour
闭bìto close
  • 门gate · mén
  • 才ability · cái

How to write 封闭

封 9 strokes · 闭 6 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

封闭 (fēngbì) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 封闭 (fēngbì). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 封闭

Words with 封

封fēng · (m.w. for letters信封xìnfēng · envelope密封mìfēng · to seal up封建fēngjiàn · feudal封锁fēngsuǒ · to blockade

Words with 闭

关闭guānbì · to close闭塞bìsè · isolated倒闭dǎobì · to go bankrupt

More words: Common Verbs

防止fángzhǐ · to prevent反抗fǎnkàng · to resist发扬fāyáng · to carry forward逢féng · to come across奉献fèngxiàn · to dedicate分散fēnsàn · to scatter粉碎fěnsuì · to smash服从fúcóng · to obey

FAQs

封闭 (fēngbì) means “to seal off” or “to close”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it fēngbì: fēng with a 1st tone, then bì with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 封闭 is written 封閉. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type fengbi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 封闭 from the suggestions. Typing fengbi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
封闭 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.